So there we were with a dead hag, sleeping puppy, and injured stallion. Wuyi, Ben and myself carried the horse back on a slab only for the group to realize we left Rupper singing to Cerberus and the body of the hag could be used for Mann to talk to her spirit. Also Kathy had been left on the beach. *sigh* Rhia, Wuyi, and Kelly went for Kathy, after Ben told Kelly to go with them...I still don't know what is with that girl...and he and I went for the body and Rupper. I grabbed the hag and we quickly and quietly made our way out of there. We were doing well until I stepped on a branch and it snapped. Cerberus awoke and Ben ordered us to run while he distracted Cerberus.
When we got to Mann he told us his house would be safe so Rupper and I went in only to find the others had not returned. So I set off to find them and bring them back only to see them standing on the beach with no Kathy...fucking wonderful.Rhia could hear something and I told them about Cerberus...which of course fell on deaf ears yet again...and cast my tracking spell. The thread of Fate...and Rhia suddenly disappeared. I stepped forward to follow it and we found a campfire with little people playing music and Kathy dancing. Wuyi and Kelly followed and one of them stepped up and invited us to dance...but it wasn't an invite it was a compulsion. I fought it off and started punching the band. No way in hell was I going to let them compel me to do anything. Wuyi and Rhia however fell under the spell and were 'dancing'. Kelly tried talking with the guy but I had finally hit enough of them to get the music to stop, and with it Rhia, Wuyi and Kathy to stop. Then there was a howl...and another....and another. Cerberus was coming! I grabbed Kelly and Wuyi grabbed Rhia and Kathy and we took off. I zoomed right around him, Wuyi lept over him, and he fell face first into the ground in front of one of the jug players who managed to play enough of a toon to make him sleep. I didn't care we just kept going and made it to the house the same time Mona was helping a burned Mann in. And then the fight began.
I honestly do not remember how it started. We were discussing Kathy and whether she should be brought to life or returned to Cerberus. It was heated sure but it wasn't ugly at first. I'm pretty sure I got the first snarky comment in...and it steam rolled from there. With me snidely commenting on Wuyi and Rhia's whorish activities, and selfish natures. I asked about Ben's curse being lifted and Rhia said something to the effect of me having to whore myself out and I exploded. I lunged for her and Wuyi stepped between us I screamed that I was no whore, that I don't sleep with my sister's father, that I sleep with no one but my husband. Mann did not seem happy that Rhia had slept with my father but she said he knew why she had to and he backed down a little. I felt my reserves of strength giving out, I could not hold it all in any longer. I cried then...tears fell as I screamed about how she wasted a question to get in his bed without a single thought for me, her sister. I trusted her implicitly. I collapsed to the floor sobbing out everything I had held in. I couldn't stop, I couldn't move and heard the others leaving to get horses as Mann had told us too but even trying to return to life could not make me move. I loved Rhia, she was my sister, and yet even now she did nothing but stomp on my heart saying she couldn't break oaths even for me. Soon Wuyi came back in and tried to comfort me, saying Rhia had to. Apologizing for them both and saying they didn't know. I just sobbed that neither even stopped to think how it would effect anyone else. She tried to blame the lack of memories and Ben came in urging me to rise and deal with this later. I looked up and I think I saw some disappointment in his gaze so I composed myself as best I could and told Wuyi that Rhiannon cared not for me, so I would try to not care for her. Kelly game me a hug and I went out to see that Ben and Wuyi had both brought horses for me. While Wuyi's was pretty, Ben had selected a strong, almost arrogant looking mare that made me smile inside even though I was crying. She was perfect. Mann said we would be horses for a day and then awake as human again. Ben trusted him so I decided to too.
Ben ad I spent the day running and jumping things and he did his best to keep my mind off the blowup. When we awoke the next morning we were human again. I lept into his arms, tackling him to the ground and kissed him with a great hunger I had only felt in a dimmer sense as a ghost. Eventually I decided to sit down and chat with Fate about why I was reacting as I did to Rhiannon sleeping with my father and found something that may have been better off forgotten. My mortal father abused and raped my sister and when she left he turned to me. I asked why Rhiannon "had to do it" and was told she was cursed with promiscuity and to fail in it she would become frail. It doesn't erase her flippant attitude towards my feelings, nor does it erase the pain of what she did or even excuse it, but at least now I have some reason to it. I asked if it could be lifted and was answered in the affirmative. I asked if my parents and sister still lived and was also told yes to those. I'm not certain how I feel about that.
At least now I know why I hurt so badly over it all. Knowing the source hasn't erased any of the pain but at least I don't feel like an overly emotional idiot. Seems my father named me properly, Xamantalpalli, Broken Wing. I'm going to talk to Ben now about this.
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